If Moses' wilderness experience was an introduction, the Israelites’ experience is the main body. They are the textbook example of human nature at work in the wilderness. The Israelites are an example of what happens when we fail the breaking and building of the wilderness. They were a people who encountered the power of God over and over again, yet refused to let the One who encountered them change them. Physical deliverance at last but deliverance of the mind took awhile. U

The wilderness is all too commonplace in the Bible to be ignored. From Moses to Jesus,many famous Bible people had a stint there. The wilderness is desolate, uninhabited and uncultivated regions (Bible hub). In the Bible, the wilderness is a place of both hardship and hope, where divine testing and provision shape humanity’s faith (The Bible project). It was the place between Moses’ life in the palace to his life as a deliverer. It was the place between Jesus' early life and

Slowly her mind drifted to that fateful afternoon when numerous men surrounded her house. Wearing a red robe she had hurriedly put on as they banged the door, she and her lover were running frantically up and down the room trying to find a way of escape. One bang came at the door, then another until the door came crashing down. There stood men, about 20 of them, eyes bloodshot with rage. “There they are”, a lanky looking man screamed. The woman found herself being yanked by t

I never understood the drama that goes on during the first day of boarding school when some students and parents get emotional about...